Project Lavina | How to import animated assets

[asart_3d]

Hi Folks,
Any idea how to export an animated FBX from 3Ds Max to Lavina ?

Thank you very much in advance .. Cheers

[vladimir.nedev]

For now, we only support animation from a .vrscene.
So you have to export an animated .vrscene file.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[asart_3d]

Hi Vladimir
I think you missunderstood me. Let me break it down what we do:

> Create a new scene in 3Ds Max 2020
> Import an animated FBX Asset (Character in this case)
> Export the entire scene as .vrscene file
> Open the .vrscene in Lavina
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> The result >> The animated character is not working/moving at all

I hope this will give you a better understanding of our issue .. Thanks again for your support in advance .. Cheers

[dougWilkinson]

Lavina only supports TRS keyframe animation. by any chance is the animation deformation type? if so lavina will ignore it. Hopefully this is something that can be overcome in time.

[asart_3d]

OK, Roger that .. Yes, the animations that have been ignored by Lavina were all vertex deformations (FBX animated sequences).

Will Lavina ever support:

- Multiple Cameras
- Vertex Defomation Animations
- Phoenix FD and/or Vray-VolumeGrid
- Multiple Custom Lights

Would be nice having those things in Lavina

[vladimir.nedev]

- Multiple Cameras

Do you mean importing multiple cameras from the .vrscene ?
Because you can already store multiple cameras inside Lavina.

- Vertex Defomation Animations

Please read this thread for more info : https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...ng-alembic-geo

- Phoenix FD and/or Vray-VolumeGrid

This is very low priority, as it's not really suited for real time and is generally a feature most users don't use.

- Multiple Custom Lights

Can you explain what you mean by this ?

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[asart_3d]

> Importing Camera >> Yes, I mean importing multiple cameras from the .vrscene
> Vertex Deformation Animations > I've read the article. Understand that it is very challenging to get this done in Real-Time. But since this is something that other tools do already support, (Marmoset Toolbag for example (Alembic files and so on)) it would be great having it in Lavina too.
> Phoenix FD >> Well, vertex deformation support could solve this issue somewhat. We would be able to export the Phoenix FD simulation as an Alembic sequence and use that when exporting the -vrscene.
> Multiple Custom Lights >> Having the possibility to add some light into the scene right in Lavina. That can be very helpfull for Arch-Viz projects, where sometimes you realize the need of some more or extra lights in a scene ust to see how that would affect the final look. > And an "Export Script or Tool" that could help transfering the new lights and light-settings into the 3ds max scene